attention to bug 321435

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

Please see http://bugs.debian.org/321435.

This bug is that gs-gpl fails to work on s390. I recall just seeing
a principal s390 developers say he was no longer doing the Debian s390
port. I don't know what effect this has on the bug.

This bug is blocking a number of packages, at the very least, ifhp and
scummvm. Something needs to happen...

I'm not sure what.

Thomas

[Adam Thornton]

Post by Thomas Bushnell BSG
Please see http://bugs.debian.org/321435.
This bug is that gs-gpl fails to work on s390. I recall just seeing
a principal s390 developers say he was no longer doing the Debian s390
port. I don't know what effect this has on the bug.
This bug is blocking a number of packages, at the very least, ifhp and
scummvm. Something needs to happen...
I'm not sure what.

I wrote to Gerhard Tonn indicating my willingness to be a maintainer
of last resort if no one more suitable for the s390 port stepped
forward, but I did not receive a reply and I do not know whether
someone else has been found. It's not clear to me that the buildd
maintainer's duties exactly are, or, critically, how much time per
week it takes.

I guess that the thing to do is to build gs-gpl with debugging turned
on, as well as scummvm, and try to find out in what function things
are rupturing. I'm going to hazard a guess that it's an assumption
about signed/unsigned characters, but that's purely a guess based on
what my gut feeling for most of the portability bugs I've seen on
s390 are about. I myself am not likely to have time to do this
before the middle of next week.

Adam

[Bastian Blank]

Post by Adam Thornton
It's not clear to me that the buildd
maintainer's duties exactly are, or, critically, how much time per
week it takes.

I'm able to handle the buildds. I already did that some time ago.

Bastian

[Gerhard Tonn]

Post by Thomas Bushnell BSG
Please see http://bugs.debian.org/321435.
This bug is that gs-gpl fails to work on s390. I recall just seeing
a principal s390 developers say he was no longer doing the Debian s390
port. I don't know what effect this has on the bug.
This bug is blocking a number of packages, at the very least, ifhp and
scummvm. Something needs to happen...
I'm not sure what.

I have already looked into the bug and it seems to be a rather
complicated issue. I will debug it in more detail this weekend.

Regards,
Gerhard

[Gerhard Tonn]

Post by Gerhard Tonn

Post by Thomas Bushnell BSG
Please see http://bugs.debian.org/321435.
This bug is that gs-gpl fails to work on s390. I recall just seeing
a principal s390 developers say he was no longer doing the Debian s390
port. I don't know what effect this has on the bug.
This bug is blocking a number of packages, at the very least, ifhp and
scummvm. Something needs to happen...
I'm not sure what.

I have already looked into the bug and it seems to be a rather
complicated issue. I will debug it in more detail this weekend.

For some reason a recompiled version works now. I have uploaded a binary
NMU and will rebuild dependent packages tomorrow.

Gerhard